Pulling out all the stylish stops for the InStyle Best of British pre-Bafta party

Wednesday 5 February 2014 09:23 BST

Jamie Hince and Otis Ferry were on the decks and the likes of Erin O'Connor, Anna Friel, Mary Charteris, Gary and Danielle Lineker and Jonathan Ross were on the guestlist - all scrubbed up very nicely. It could only be the InStyle Best of British pre-Bafta party.

Supermodel O’Connor arrived in a tight black dress for the party, finally giving the game away that she is pregnant with her first child at the age of 35, having kept the news secret for five months with the help of baggy jumpers and winter coats.

She said: “Nobody knew. This is my first outing. It was a well kept secret. Thank God for all those winter coats. I just thought I’d come out with a bang.”

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Perfect up-do

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Hats off and on

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Colour block look

Natalie Dormer looks lovely in orange (Dave Benett)

She even kept her condition from Naomi Campbell and Caroline Winberg — her fellow judges on modelling competition show The Face.

O’Connor, who rose to fame 10 years ago, is looking forward to the prospect of starting a family with her partner Stephen Gibson. She said: “We wanted to have a family and we were ready and we were lucky enough to make it happen. It’s brilliant. You have to be ready and I’m glad I waited.

“I have lived with this body for 35 years and it seems to morph and grow every day. Now it is nourishing my baby and it’s fascinating and outrageously wonderful. I feel the best in my life so far.”

As for cravings, she said she had the usual desire for “carbs and sugar”, adding: “In the first tri-mester my diet went back to being at high school.

“But I am feeling more leafy now and trying my hardest to nourish my baby.” She is in no hurry to take maternity leave and said she was still doing shoots.